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Great blogging community for teachers. You can start your own blog discussing any problems, sucesses, issues, etc and have a community of other teachers there to help and learn along with you. You can also read their blogs and learn from what they have to say. Great information would be shared.

Great for schools! Can be used to blog for teachers, students, professors or anyone involved in education. It also helps schools and university control their own blogs. Very helpful for the education world.

This is an easy way to start a blog. It walks you through all the steps you go through to start one and all of the features it comes with. You can decide who sees your blog, add pictures, use it from your cell phone, etc. This would be good for teachers to use for their classroom because it has special features and seems easy to use.

Blogger.com is a website where individuals can create blogs that are available to the public to read. These blogs can also be made private so that only the blogger and his/her invited friends can view the blog. This site is helpful for making others aware of what the blogger is interested in or what the blogger would like to inform people of.

This blog is for teachers by a crazy teacher....hence the name. Mostly teacher news, but also has videos and links with applications that can be used.

Great way for teachers to incorporate digital skills into the curriculum. Offers planning guides, teaching techniques, activities and projects for teaching computer graphics and image editing.

Tate Kids allows children to create artwork, games, videos, etc.

This blog is written by an early childhood teacher out of Australia. He uses it to share his experiences in his own classroom and offer ideas to other teachers or early childhood specialists from a Montessori perspective.

This is an example of a WordPress Blog written by a teacher from Austrailia who uses this to share his experiences in his early childhood classroom. This is a great resource for anyone working in a classroom because he offers great recipes to use in activity plans and shares his ideas on how an early childhood classroom should be run form a Montessori perspective.

These are examples of how one teacher used Photo Story 3 in his classroom.

TotSpot integrates many aspects of technology together to create a Facebook-like network for parents and their child. The network is private and accessible to only account holders. Parents create an account then are able to add their children to the account on their own page. Pages can be shared through friend invite. The parents and children can upload pictures, videos, write journals, create developmental charts, and track milestones. Friends on the account can view items and make comments. With families living far apart and technology on the rise, families can keep track of their childrens' progress (even before birth!)

"A Wetpaint website is built on the power of collaborative thinking. Here, you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based around the whatever-it-is that rocks your socks. A social website that's so easy to use, anyone can participate."\n About Us. (2009). retrieved February 28, 2009 , from WetPaint Web Site: http://www.wetpaint.com/page/about \n\n Technology has become such a great assessment and device to drive and promote learning in the classroom. I believe that it would behoove teachers to take advantages of these new tools and incorporate them in the classroom. Technology has open so many new ways to allow teachers and students to collaborate while learning, and WetPaint is the way to go. By using WetPaint, Teachers can create blogs for their classrooms; which may include, syllabus, information, assignment, etc. The students of the classroom can join the bog and post new information, ask questions, work on projects, etc. WetPaint can be used in classrooms of different ages. The teacher can disable ads and other information that children may not need to see. Parents can also read the blogs. This allows a chance for parents to know what their children are learning and promote these ideas at home. WetPaint is can become child-directed, if the teacher is will to make it that way. If teachers allow children a chance to learn about and experience this in the classroom, WetPaint can become a very child-directed technology. The possibilities are endless with using WetPaint.

This site actually integrates two techological techniques. Scribd is a website where documents can be shared online. This particular scribd document is about Picasa and how it can be used in the classroom along with resources to learn more about utilizing Picasa.

This certain blog page describes the use of Picasa in the classroom. Check out the rest of the blog because it's a great resource on how to integrate technology into the classroom. Others have made comments that are useful too.

KidVideos is like Youtube for kids. The contents of the videos are appropriate for kids with precreening and monitoring of comments. Children can watch videos in different categories and share their own online. There even contests on the website that the children can enter. Videos can be shared with the children's family. Children can have fun directing, acting, and producing their own videos and possibly creating their own show!

The Microbiowiki is a site to aid in the study of introductory microbiology - The Microbiowiki Homepage

The Littlewood Nature Guide wiki gives examples of some of the flora and fauna that can be found in our school's environmental center - Nature Guide Home